Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

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after lingering illness on the
morning of the 10th instant, aged
AZ years.
A man of note in the West lust
now is ga Kentuckian who has at
tanned the ripe age of ninety-hve,
and during that long period has
never uttered a profane OATH" Of.
course, he never was in Kentucky
politics, and never bet on Ken
lucky horse race.
Marriage redeems men and re-
duces their chances of getting into
TAIL. Among every 1000 bache-
lors there are thirty.eight criminals,
while only eighteen married men
out of every 1000 get convicted of
crime. Marriage is safe guard,
providing you have only one wife
at a time.
A Delaware man IN order to
amuse his baby rolled of his YER
anda twenty.one inches high and
broke his neck. This shows how
uncertain is life, especially when
we call to mind the fact that hum
dreds of men have rolled out Of
windows twenty feet high, while
drunk, and escaped without inju-
ry.
A large public meeting of lead
ing citizens of Dalton, Ga, de-
nounced as slanderous the reports
sent out about the hanging of Gov.
Gordon in esigy by a mob and a
disturbance in the city. They de-
clare that but three men were en-
gagged in the effigy hanging, and
that these three men were all in
toxicated, and since becoming So
Der regret their conduct.
Joseph Smith, of Chicago, dream
ed the other night that he fell from
q third.stOry window to the pave
ment. He got up and looked out
of the window TO see if the dream
was true, and he found a burglar
coming up a ladder to enter his
room and rob him. He gave the
ladder a push, the burglar got a
hard fall, and Joseph returned to
bed to see if he couldn't astonish
the country some more.
A little negro lad, about seven
years old, living near UniOntOwn,
Ga, is said to possess a wonderful
talent for sculpture. He can take
a lump of mud from the roadside,
and with his hands form any ami
NAL he ever saw, the proportions
being perfect. He recently made,
out of clay, q life.size statue of a
dog that astonished everybody
who saw it, because of its extraor-
binary fidelity to life.
North Danville's VA assistant
post master has been removed I'M
der peculiar circumstances. A let
ter was received addressed to a col
ored preacher, whose death had
been announced. 1t was returned
TO the sender by the assistant post
master, with the written words {:
"Dead, and gone to the devil"
The letter was afterwards sent to
the Postmaster General, who at
once ordered the removal of the
assistant postmaster. Served him
right.
In 1878 a sheriff in Kentucky
found his cash box $4,000 short.
He suspected deputy, but could
prove nothing. He made good the
deficit, but by dong so bankrupt
ed himself, and has lived by days
wages ever since. Recently his
wife, who was in an insane asylum,
was overheard talking about money
she had hid in a smOke.h house. An
investigation was made, and sure
enough $4,000 was found in green
backs, which she had distracted
and hid away while insane. This
discovery has put the sheriff ahead
again, and cleared the reputation
of all parties.
When Abraham Lincoln was a
clerk in a dry goods store he sold
a woman a little bill of goods,
amounting in value by the recon
ing to s2.0Gf. He received the
money and the woman went away
On adding the items Of the bill
again to make himself sure of cor
rectness, he found that he had TAX
en- CT cents too much. 1t was
night, but closing and locking tine
store, he started out on foot, dis
lance of two or three miles, for the
house of his defrauded customer,
and, delivering over to her the SUN
whose possession had so much
troubled him, went home satisfied
This is a very humble incident,
but il illustrates the mans perfect
cOnscientiOusness, his sensitive
honesty, better perhaps than If II
had been a greater moment.
The people are not supposed to
be aware of the fact that there was
a minister in Woodstock week be.
fore last. If such had been under
stood Senator Riddleberger's aman
uensis would not have been called
upon to reply to the letters and
rostal cards from the beloved fem